Temple City High School

Classes of 1961 and 1962

50th
Reunion

Only One Week to Go!

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Date

The reunion committee is excited to
announce that the 50th Reunion of the Classes of 1961 and 1962 will
be held on the weekend of September 15-16, 2012.

Location

The main
reunion event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, 1107 Jamboree
Road, Newport Beach, California, 92660; 949-729-1234, from 6:00 PM to 11:00
PM on Saturday September 15. It will feature a buffet dinner and the
companionship of the friends of your youth. Dress will be "dressy
casual."

Sunday Post-Reunion Picnic

Because
we recognize that there is never enough time at the evening reunion event to
talk to all the people from your past that you would like to catch up with,
there will be a picnic/beach party on Sunday, September 16, from 10:00 AM to
2:00 PM at Peninsula Park which is on the beach on the Newport Peninsula just
off Main Street. Here is a Google
Map link for the 1.6 mile walk or drive from the hotel using the Balboa
Ferry.

Food

Due to the number of
classmates who will be staying in hotels and are unable to engage in food prep
for a potluck, it has to be strictly BYO (one advantage of which being you can
each bring what you like and can watch out for your own special dietary needs,
etc.)

We have two public grills
reserved for us so you can barbecue hot dogs, hamburgers, or whatever you
choose to bring that needs to be cooked. The committee chair will
bring a 20 lb bag of charcoal and one or more committee members and/or
classmates might consider bringing one as well (or a smaller bag)

For everyone, but
particularly for those who are staying at the Hyatt or nearby, here are the
four groceries on the route from the hotel to Peninsula Park using the Balboa
Ferry:

Pavilions Market - 1000
Bayside Dr, Newport Beach - (949) 760-0975 -- The "Cadillac" part of the
California portion of the Safeway/Von's chain, this will be the largest and
most complete of the four groceries. I have never been to this location, but
among other things, most Pavilions have a great sandwich bar in the deli
section. This is about a block west of Jamboree Road after it crosses PCH.

Not on the walking
route to the ferry, but within quick driving distance of the Hyatt Regency
about 1.5 miles southeast down PCH -- Bristol Farms - 810 Avocado Ave,
Newport Beach - (949) 760-6514. At the corner of Avocado and PCH, Bristol
Farms is part of a gourmet supermarket chain with a large and
exotic array of meats, cheeses, veggies, wines and just about anything you
could imagine -- and you can get take-out too.

If you don't want to shop
and carry picnic food to the beach there are a few restaurants in the
immediate vicinity of the park's picnic area where you can either take a break
from the gathering and eat in or get take-out to come back with -- including

Ruby's at the end of the
Balboa Pier (hard to beat Ruby's but it is a bit of a walk to the end of the
pier and back)

BJ's Restaurant and
Brewhouse at 106 Main St a few doors away from the park (an excellent chain
-- however, the reviews remark that this particular location is a
mini-version of most of the BJ's but it should be good enough for take-out.
They are noted for their pizza. The chain's jambalaya is to die for although
it may not be on this BJ's menu.)

Bella Luna Cafe at 701 E
Ocean Front across the street from the park (the committee has no experience
with it)

Park Rules:

NO ALCOHOL -- There are
nearby bars if you have to have it, but don't bring any to the park or
on the beach

No loud music. Personal
devices are permissible but it cannot be amplified to a level that can be
heard beyond our immediate area

Our permit is for 35
people. The committee expects (and hopes) that we will have more
than that in attendance, but we must be careful not to have more than 35
around the picnic tables and barbecue pits at any one time (our reserved area)
or your chairperson is going to get a huge fine assessed. But we are in a
public park which is unreserved and for use of anyone, so there is no
prohibition against spreading out into other areas of the park. There is also
a large athletic field just south of the park across A Street, which
essentially forms a part of the park.

Admission

There is no admission fee.
All classmates are welcome and encouraged to come whether or not you attend
the Saturday night main event. The committee did have to pay Newport Beach $72
per hour rent on the space plus an administrative fee for a total of $288.
Voluntary contributions towards our expenses would not be turned down.
However, our contract with the city prohibits us from openly collecting
contributions or they will consider it a commercial gathering and charge us
even more fees -- so if you feel like helping out please discreetly contact a
committee member at the picnic (or the night before -- or, if you're
registered at PayPal you can submit a contribution directed to the
chair at the chair's e-mail address: equity@iname.com
).

Parking

The major parking lot for
our picnic area is the Balboa Pier lot just north of the park which occupies
the area to the ocean side of Balboa Blvd from Adams St to Main St. The Balboa
Pier lot entrance is located at Palm and Balboa Blvd. Cars are 50 cents every
20 minutes to a maximum of $15.00 per day. Some meters are equipped to take
payment by credit card. There is no additional fee to the consumer for credit
card transactions at meters or pay stations accepting credit cards. If you
don't wish to pay by credit card bring lots of quarters.

There are also two small
lots, the A St lot which borders Peninsula Park on the ocean side and on the
east side along A St and the B St lot which is along B St at the far end of
the athletic field to the east of the park. The meters at these two lots also
have the option to pay by phone (via the ParkMobile app
available for smart phones). At meters with the pay by phone option, there is
a 35 cent consumer charge per transaction which ParkMobile charges. If you
decide to install the mobile app please be sure to visit the Newport Beach help page on ParkMobile so that you
won't make mistakes that both get you charged for the parking and still cause
you to run the risk of a citation. (I gave you the link for the NB help page
because it's VERY hard to find on the ParkMobile site [hint: you have to click
on the red "Help" icon on the right edge of any ParkMobile page and then type
in a search for the name of the city you're interested in.] On that sheet the
Zone code for A St is 9758 and for B St it's 9735. But you should still read
the NB help page for all the pertinent details.) At its current stage of
development, ParkMobile appears to be heavily developed on the East Coast and
not too much in SoCal yet. But it looks very promising for the future. For me,
even though I have the ParkMobile app, I'll probably opt for a straight credit
card transaction on the meter itself.

There is also metered
street parking out on Balboa Blvd, although you'll be competing with the
Pavilion and Fun Zone crowds for those.

Ferry

Each ferry holds three cars
and 75 passengers and runs every five minutes in each direction (two ferries
run and pass each other midway).

Fares:

Adults are
$1Children 5+ to11 - .50Children under 5 - Free

Vehicles
(Passengers are Extra)Car and Driver $2 plus $1 for each adult
passengerMotorcycle and Driver $1.50Bicycle and Rider
$1.50Bicycle and Child .75

An
observation:This probably won't happen on September 16 because the
committee specifically chose that weekend since it offered the potential of
summer weather but after the summer season is over, the crowds are
gone, and school is back in session -- however, your
chairperson was on the Peninsula on Labor Day Sunday and it was a
logistical nightmare. There was no hope of parking in the Balboa Pier lot,
so we decided not to go to the beach but just take the ferry and leave via
PCH. Even at 3 cars per ferry we waited in line the short two blocks from
Balboa Blvd to the ferry for over 30 minutes. When we drove off on Bal
Island the cars waiting to board the ferry to the Peninsula were lined up
for 8-10 blocks along Agate and Park Avenues. That had to have amounted to
more than a 2-hour wait. It should not be that bad on September 16, but if
you don't want to risk it and you have a car, the chair would
recommend just entering the Newport Peninsula the usual way at the PCH and
Newport Blvd (CA-55) interchange and driving down the peninsula to Palm, A,
or B Streets to park. If you're planning to walk from the hotel to the ferry
and picnic (1.6 miles) the ferry crossing should present no problems at all
for pedestrians no matter how bad it might look for
vehicles.

Some helpful images related to the Picnic site:

Park and Parking Map

Google Map Street View of Park Entrance at Main
Street

The route map from the hotel to the picnic site is in the map link at the
beginning of this section about the picnic.

Reunion Registration

Only One Week to Go!

We have
once again contracted with Great Reunions to produce the Saturday event. Please
go to the TCHS 61-62 Reunion Page on the Great Reunions
website to register for the reunion and provide current contact
information. Note that: "The deadline for receiving Bio-Sheets is one
month prior to your reunion date." That means it is now too late to have a page in the Bio
Book if you have not previously done
this.

Since it is now within the last four weeks before
the reunion to register Great Reunions will add a $20 surcharge to the $99
event fee, so the price presently is $119. If you come in unregistered and pay
at the door the night of the reunion the price per ticket becomes
$139cash
only.

But,
registered or not, please use the contact
information page on the TCHS 61-62 Great Reunions page to provide updated
contact information for yourself if you have not done so already and for anyone
else you know in either of the two classes. When you enter your own contact
information or that of others, would you please send a copy of that information
to the committee as well using the e-mail address provided at the end of this
page?

You will
find a link on our Great Reunions page to the Hyatt's site where you can
register for rooms (although the rates are lower at Hotels.com and AARP). If you
are not yet registered at the hotel, in August both the hotel and Hotels.com has
been having a sale price on a King or Double bed room for $139. In this
instance, it would be cheaper to register through the hotel's web site as
Hotels.com charges a small fee for the booking.

Travel Notes

If you do plan to stay at the Hyatt
and do not plan to travel elsewhere in SoCal, you may be able to forego the
expense of a rental car because the Hyatt has a hotel shuttle from and to John
Wayne Airport.

If you are living outside Southern
California and would like to contact classmates in your area to make joint
travel plans or for other reasons, send the committee an e-mail and we will try
to put you in contact with each other.

TCHS Alumni
Website

The alumni website is not
specifically for our reunion but for all things related to all classes of TCHS
alums. You'll find TCHS news, classmate updates, and memory lane postings. But
the main value of being a member is to have e-mail contact with other TC alums
without having to reveal your e-mail address. Once you are registered using your
actual e-mail address it will not be revealed on the site but the site will
forward to your e-mail address all messages left for you on the site.

After you have registered there
please visit the alumni site at least once a year to keep your registration
active. And by all means, whenever you change your primary e-mail address
include the alumni site among those you notify of the change so that your
messages can continue to reach you.

Customize Your Own
Reunion Wear

The committee is not going to get into the business of
designing and selling t-shirts and other reunion apparel. But here is a site too
good not to share with everyone so you can individually design your own reunion
apparel to wear around the hotel and to the Sunday event. It's
PrepSportswear.

The link in the image above will get you to the landing page
for TCHS. (If you left click it will take you off the page you are reading
right now [use the back button to get back here]. If you right click you can
choose to open it in a new tab or window so you can keep the present page
available to refer to as you use the PrepSportswear site.) From there explore
the kinds of clothing you might like (Mens, Womens, T-shirts, Sweatshirts etc).
As you surf you may or may not find the "Pick It, Design It" bar already filled
in with the "Sport" window showing "Reunion", the "Number" window filled in with
"50", and the "Year" window filled in with "1962." You can change the "Sport"
window just by clicking in it to open up the selection menu. You can change the
"Number" and "Year" windows simply by overwriting.

As you browse a clothing category (say Men's t-shirts), a number of examples
will be displayed. Ignore the particular design on the fronts because you can
change that. Rather make your selection by price, quality, fabric content,
available fabric colors, etc.

When you're settled on the kind of clothing you want, pick a
particular item and then the page should show Selections 01-05 allowing you to
customize your apparel the way you would like. (If the Selections seem blanked
out, look in "03 Choose Design" and click on "Design Colors" under "advanced
edit" and selections in all the categories should open up.)

01 - Select Activity: Click on "See More" and a list will open up to let
you choose from a large number of activities to imprint. If you click on
category "Alumni" a sub-list will open allowing you to specify the imprint.
"Alumni," "Reunion" and "Class Reunion" are suggested appropriate choices
in the sub-menu if you want your apparel to be geared to the 50th Reunion (you
can do anything you want though and not have it geared to the reunion if
that's your wish) -- each will cause their own variances later in the
customizing.

02 - Personalize: we suggest you put "#50" in the first box and either
"1961" or "1962" in the second box (unfortunately it won't combine the
two).

03 - Choose Design: will open a scroll bar menu offering a truly remarkable
number of possible imprints to put on your item. If it doesn't appear, click
"Design Colors" as noted above. Hard choosing here. The sample picture
will change with each imprint you browse through and it magnifies so you can
see exactly what the design looks like on the apparel.

04 - Colors: choose the color of your apparel fabric from the little color
boxes (which will display a text of the color with a mouse rollover).

05 - Size and Quantity: self-explanatory (but there is a "size chart" icon
and phone support if you need to talk to anyone before
ordering).